Matsyapurana 12.5

12.5

kimityetadabhūccitraṃ vada yogavidāṃ vara
vasiṣṭhaścābravīt sarvaṃ dṛṣṭvā taddhyānacakṣuṣā //

Sûta said that sometime after Ikṣwaku, &c., the brothers of Ila, set out in quest of him. In their wanderings they chanced to pass by the Śaravaṇa, where they came across the mare, on which was the saddle, glittering with jewels. On seeing the mare with that jewelled saddle, they all recognised it to be Chandraprabhâ, the famous charger of the Monarch Ila. They were highly astonished to find the charger transformed into a mare, and questioned the priest Maitrâ-Varuṇa (Vasiṣṭha) about it. The sage began to explain to them the mystery, through his powers of Yoga. The sage Vasiṣṭha said that Śiva and Pârvatî had determined that any one entering the limits of their pleasure-garden would instantly be transformed into a female figure. Unfortunately, both the king and the horse happened to do so and they were transformed accordingly. The brothers of the transformed monarch then besought the great sage to devise some means by which Ila could be restored to manhood.—1-7.